EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
“
ZIFF is all about
our tradition and past,
but
ZIFF stands equally for
future and for novelty
and freshness of
new film voices!
”
new challenges. For example, this year
we have signed an agreement with
Beijing Film Academy to exchange a selection of our ZIFF films to be screened
in China. In return, we expect Chinese
filmmakers to submit their works either
independently or through official channels to enter Africa and reach out to the
audience over here! In 2009, ZIFF poster
was designed by a student of the Yuxi
Normal University. I just want to emphasize that ZIFF is all about our
tradition and past, but ZIFF stands
equally for future and for novelty and
freshness of new film voices!”
When film is a metaphor
For me, art, film is a legitimate tactic to
shake up and challenge the intellectually lazy
minds. It takes more than money to make a
good film. What is Professor Martin Mhando’s next good, important film, if I may?
Martin: “It is secret.” He laughs
cunningly, eyeing me as if I had flouted some unwritten rule of professional
discretion, adding, “But that’s the title of
my next full feature, Ni Kunga, meaning
it is secret. It’s a love story.
A love triangle, to be precise.”
He pauses; I’m all ears.
“Tanzania, like some other African
countries, took the socialist path
shortly after obtaining independence
in the 1960s. Meanwhile, newly-inde- >>
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